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...make us cheer the idea of the small man fighting the bureaucracy, only instead of the harried housewife trying to get the phone company to correct a billing error, this is blood 'n' guts stuff. It doesn't work. The C.I.A. is doing its job in this film, and ther heroes--Redford and Max von Sydow (the completely amoral killer-as-artist)--are hollow and unconvincing. Three Days of the Condor illustrates some of the dilemmas of liberalism faced with the need for a C.I.A.--the final appeal, the deus ex machina of the film, is The New York Times...
...body was transported, with six of Faisal's brothers serving as pallbearers, to a graveyard on the outskirts of Riyadh where commoners as well as royalty are buried. The body was laid to rest in an unmarked grave not far from that of Faisal's fa ther, Ibn Saud, founder of the kingdom...
...with a great Democratic majority in Congress is up against a philosophical difference. But there is a limit to how much you can compromise in an effort to get solutions. When you start trying to mix salt and sugar, it is not going to turn out to be ei ther good salt or good sugar. There come moments when you almost have to adopt an adversary position in order for people to understand what the issue is. Sometimes, even if you're going to be overridden in a veto, you stand and say, "Here, this is what...
...fussy, overdecorated, and tricked out with a silly plot about a young woman's discovery of the ultimate turn-on. Emmanuelle (Sylvia Kristel) is the wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok who encourages her to fall into any kind and combination of sexual escapades to fur ther her erotic education. He even urges her into the arms of an aging sybarite (Alain Cuny), who wows her with such metaphysical pronouncements as "True love is erection, not the orgasm...
Ludwig van Beethoven: The Late String Quartets, Op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135 (Vegh Quartett; Telefunken, 4 LPs, $27.92). These quartets are the summit of Beethoven's chamber music. It is music that makes no concessions, ei ther to brain or hand, and sets no store by charm. The Végh Quartett makes sense of these bristling compositions with their many movements, many rhythms, many ideas, abrupt changes of character. The group is most convincing in the melancholy opening fugue of the C-Sharp Minor but lacks the emotional reach required by the sudden deaths and harsh...